GRETA
Greta is a film about loneliness, and using designer bags to make friends
Neil Jordan discusses his camp, creepy thriller starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz as lost, searching souls
Nick Chen
16 April 2019
What’s lurking behind Isabelle Huppert’s eyes? No matter the role, the French actor’s piercing stare is always menacing and irresistible. In Greta, a demented stalker-thriller from director Neil Jordan, the versatility of Huppert’s infamous glare is pushed to the extreme. At first, Huppert depicts Greta as a fragile old woman, a lost soul in New York whose face radiates warmth and motherliness. But when betrayed, Greta reveals herself to be a monster whose scare tactics involve intense eye contact; by taking longer to blink, the isolated figure reduces her victims to a withering wreck.